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Re: Venture Brothers

Its that for THREE SEASONS now they've left in the pedophile joke guy while completely sidelining the best character on the show.

Changing the status quo for a little while to mix it up is fine, but when the seasons take three years apiece now that's just... meh.

I mean I guess Hatred fits the "failure" motif of the series better but he's just... not funny or interesting.

He's also yet another character done by the two heads so there's just always conversations with themselves.

Brock never disappeared for more than an episode or two, though, and his character actually went places and did things. His return to bodyguard status in season 5 was great, but to me, it was much less interesting than his Sphinx and OSI stuff because his character was brought back to what he tended to be when an active member of the Venture family: A lover of women, occasional paternal figure for Hank, and general asskicker.

Re: Venture Brothers

Brock is the bodyguard again tho isn't he?

In Season 6, Rusty getting rich meant he "Hit the big time again" and Brock got reassigned to him. Hatred quit when they tried to give him a desk job and ended up head of security for Venture Industries.

Personally, I like Hatred when they're doing literally anything else with him besides the pedophile jokes. Those make me groan, but I don't think they've been dipping into that well all too much. His interactions with Rusty in the Teddy Talks-a-Lot episode were hilarious I thought and I don't recall them ever making pedo jokes there.

Re: Venture Brothers

I watched the episodes.

Spoiler:

Even heavier continuity this time around; the first two episodes played like part of a bigger movie.

Each one has a sort of retcon to it that I didn't expect. I sorta don't like that the problem light has a bigger role now, since the original joke was something about stupid engineering design. I'll reserve judgement on what they're doing with Jonas's body until I see what they do with it, but I'm at once sorta meh on the retcon and excited to see what they do with it. Second one is Dr. Dugong being alive, which takes a bit of the bite out of the episode where he died, but I'll buy the explanation they gave about starfish. But he's such a weenis!

As for the eps themselves, really enjoyable. Looks like these two eps are sorta combo proper season 6 finale and season 7 intrigue. I guess Wide Whale's sorta out of the villain picture for now? The Monarch's moonlighting is out in the open, and we get a follow-up on Red Death knowing about the Monarch (looking like he has a bigger role this season, which I'm into!). I have no fucking clue what's going on with the Venture building and this other Blue Morpho thing. Maybe time shenanigans? Or maybe Red Death is pulling some strings to give the guild a Blue Morpho head that isn't the Monarch's? And are we going to learn more about Movie Night on Gargantua 1? Does that have something to do with this? Guess we're finding out piecemeal.

Also glad the Order of the Triad are back! If the Venture building intrigue keeps up, they'll probably be around for the season, too. As much as I love the continuing story, though, I really hope we get a standalone episode or two. Rewatching the series from the beginning reminded me of how great Doc and Publick's writing is in the tighter stories. I'm hoping the whole murder bear thing in the season trailer is some sign pointing to that, since I don't know how he'd fit into everything. Can't wait to see what we have coming, though.

Re: Venture Brothers

Spoilers from the leak

Spoiler:

Was that Vendata/Venturion/Monarch's father(?) at the end of ep2? The the PROBLEM activation made him regain his memories? I did not expect that Monarch's robot zombie father would save him from the Blue Morpho situation. And Man Red Death is a fantastic addition to the show.